The U23 Asian Cup continued in Qatar, and in the first round of the match, there was a big upset, Vietnam defeated Kuwait 3-1, Iraq lost 0-2 to Thailand, and the national football team did not reverse Japan in the case of 11 to 10, and suffered a black start. In the early hours of this morning, the second round of the tournament was fully launched, and there was another big upset, Indonesia defeated Australia 1-0, and Qatar in the same group defeated Jordan 2-1 to advance to the knockout round.
Indonesia VS Australia
Australia are the top teams in Asia, reaching the last four of the last Under-23 Asian Cup, Australia drew with Jordan in the first round, while Indonesia were sent off twice in the clash with Qatar and eventually lost 2-0 to hosts Qatar. In this game, Australia has an absolute advantage,
With a whopping 64% possession and 21 shots on target, but only 4 shots on target, Indonesia was on the defensive throughout the game, but with an effective counter-attack, although only 36% possession, there were also 8 shots on goal, and towards the end of the first half, Indonesia scored the only goal of the game in a counterattack, and finally Indonesia beat Australia with a score of 1-0.
In the standings of Group A, Qatar won all 2 games and accumulated 6 points to advance to the group, Indonesia ranked 2nd with 3 points, Australia ranked 3rd with 1 point, and Jordan ranked at the bottom.
Jordan vs Qatar
Jordan drew 0-0 with Australia in the first round, and hosts Qatar's victory over Indonesia was controversial, with Indonesia being sent off by two men and Qatar also awarded a penalty in the game. In the second round, the two West Asian teams met, and Qatar opened the scoring in the 40th minute of the first half when Yazidi broke the deadlock. In the second half, Jordan equalized from the penalty spot by Haji.
In stoppage time, Qatar's Mohammed Manet scored the winning goal, but this game was also extremely controversial, because the stoppage time was as long as 13 minutes, and Qatar relied on the super long stoppage time to beat the Jordan team, won two consecutive victories, and locked the first place in the group in advance to advance to the top 8. The final round of matchups is, Qatar vs Australia, Indonesia vs Jordan, Australia only has 1 point, and Indonesia will definitely be able to beat Australia as long as it wins Jordan again.
National Olympics VS South Korea
The first round of the Olympic team and Japan clashed, the opening only 8 minutes of the city gate was lost, but then the Japanese team's defender was sent off for elbow action to receive a red card, but the national Olympic team did not take advantage of the opportunity when there was one more person on the field, besieged the Japanese goal but did not get a chance to score, and finally lost, suffered a black start, and cast a shadow on the prospects of qualifying in the group of death.
South Korea faced the UAE in the first round, and with Lee Young-jun's stoppage-time goal, South Korea narrowly beat the UAE 1-0. The National Olympic team and the South Korean team met in the quarterfinals of the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games, when the National Olympic team still lost to the South Korean team with a score of 0-2 at home, and the difference in strength between the two sides was obvious.
Japan and South Korea have 3 points for the dead group, and 0 points for the Olympic Games and the United Arab Emirates. In this round, Japan played against the United Arab Emirates, and South Korea faced the National Olympic Games. If the Olympic team loses against South Korea again, it will miss the group in advance, so in this game, the National Olympic team must beat the South Korean team to the death, at least grab 1 point from South Korea, and then fight for three points from the United Arab Emirates in the final round, and then see if they can qualify from the group.